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Hiking and Safety Tips for New Hikers

Views From The Top recommends that all hikers read and familiarize themselves with the hikeSafe web site before venturing into the back country. Remember that in NH, Fish and Game can and will charge you for some or all expense(s) incurred if you need to be rescued.

There is still a foot of snow around Zealand hut (to give you an idea where the snow line is now). I'd expect there to be at least a couple of feet of wet snow in the woods along that whole stretch. Certainly more than a novelty amount of snow. Conditions could be challenging for sure.

I would expect very deep snow there. I haven't done this year but I did the stretch between Garfield and Galehead Hut during that really lean snow year we had a year or two ago and it was the only place I wore snowshoes that year (March I believe). The snow was quite deep. Given the volume of snow we got this year and the lack of a warm up until recently I'd expect plenty of the white stuff in that stretch.

I did it several years ago during Memorial Day and it had feet. The Twinway is the highest wooded ridge in NH. The higher sections in the woods on Garfield and north of Lafayette will be under feet of snow too. Climbing something in the Northern Presi's out of Madison Gulf or 6H, and your plan would be the three trips I would avoid. Other than Mahoosuc Notch.